From owner-cvs-user Tue May 26 12:06:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29258 for cvs-user-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-user) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29077; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19017; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805261904.VAA19017@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/as Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/ld Makefile sr In-Reply-To: <1027.896207552@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 26, 98 08:32:32 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:04:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-user@FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.org From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-user@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote: > In message <199805261825.UAA07236@sos.freebsd.dk>, Søren Schmidt writes: > > >> Variant symlinks anyone? > > > >That was exactly what I asked for before we started on the ELF game :) > > > >Like Domain OS and DGUX has them, yes yes yes.... > > > >Its just that they are a mess to do right.... > > Not if you don't make the mistake of merging them with the environment. Hmm, then they are of no use :), the exact good reason to have them is that you can use an environment var as element in a link path, that is a very neat feature and usefull like h... The only other posibility would be to add a new "symlinkvarspace" to each process, settable via some other means, (Poul allready screams sysctl, sysctl!! :)), I still like the environment vars better, and it is much easier used in scripts etc, but again I also know they are hell to implement... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..